Shoebox Living gave 125 children from a primary school in Peckham (one of London’s more deprived areas) a shoebox and asked them to recreate their bedroom, or a room from their house, and to write a few sentences about it. The boxes are then stacked into a ‘tower block’ installation – giving an insight into vulnerable childrens’ lives. Supported by the Bryan Adams Foundation the plan is to invite 100 artists to contribute their own shoebox recreations and to run a lottery auction of all boxes, with proceeds going to Kids Company (a charity founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh to provide practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children and young people) to fund art workshops and therapy for traumatised children.
The small scale of the rooms, combined with the aggregate number of them, makes for surprisingly fascinating and moving viewing. Also, I now feel an urge to make my own tiny shoebox room.
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